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From Module 3 : Rizal’s National Consciousness

Tackles/shows about how Rizal gained his National Consciousness resulting for him to aim
reform/assimilation and rights of fellow Filipinos.

GOMBURZA

 At a young age (10 years old) Jose Rizal became aware of the mistreatment of Spaniards to
Filipinos.
 This was the execution of the three martyr priests Gomez, Burgos, Zamora known as
GOMBURZA in February 17, 1872 which affected Rizal’s older brother Paciano who is close to
Burgos. Rizal was the one whom Paciano expressed his frustrations with.
 Execution opened Rizal’s eyes to the true situation of Philippine society under the Spanish
colony. The three priests whom he dedicated his second novel El Filibusterismo.

COLLEGE

 Rizal’s college life in University of Santo Thomas (UST) was different compared to Ateneo.
 In that school, he started to experienced controversies and hardships during his academic in
UST in which he studied philosophy and shifted to medicine.
 Just like other Filipinos, he experienced racial discrimination and Dominican professors’
unfavorable treatment.

SPAIN/EUROPE

 After finishing medicine in UST Rizal flew to Spain to continue his study in medicine.
 Aside from completing his study, he was also given a secret mission by his brother Paciano
to observe and begin campaign for reforms in the Philippines.
 In Spain 1882, he witnessed that the government was in chaos, there was corruption and
illiteracy because of lack of education from primary –secondary.
 He was able to expose from the atmosphere of liberalism in Spain which is new to him.
 He became aware of assimilation. Aiming for the Philippines to be considered as a province
of Spain and for Filipinos to be equal with Spaniards.
 In Spain/Europe he was able to make connections and from reading books about liberalism
and less fortunate gave him a motivation to create a draft for his book.
 NOVELS (NOLI & EL FILI )

 The situation of the Filipinos and the Philippine Society under the Spanish and friars were
Rizal’s source for his novels.
 The novels tackles different issues in the real life situation of Philippines society in 19th
century (Rizal’s time) such as abuses of the friars, discrimination, love for education,
revenge, social change, colonial mentality, and false accusations to innocents.
 Education was also included in his novels since he aimed for Filipinos to be educated and
have a good quality of education in which Spaniards was not able to provide.
 He doesn’t want Filipinos to be ignorant. For him education is a human right that everyone
deserves.
 Through his novels inspired from the issues on which Philippine society is going through, he
aimed for the readers to be enlightened on the true situation/malulat sa katotohanan. After
the readings he aspired to make changes on the views of Filipinos citizen.
 Aspiring to fight for their human rights, dignity, justice, and equality. That’s why he came
back to the country to see whether there’s an impact from his novels.

Module 6 : To Make Rizal Obsolete

The part which tackles if the Philippines of the present time should make Rizal obsolete.

 Rizal’s two novels ( Noli & Fili ) reflect the situation of the Philippine society during the 19th
century of Rizal’s time. That story tackles different issues of the government, church, citizen,
events, and the country.
 Still, there’s no difference between the situation of the Philippines from the past and present.
There is still corruption of the government, discrimination from foreigners, even from our own
fellow Filipinos, colonial mentality, crab mentality, etc. The worst parts are various
crime/problems that our country is facing such as illegal drugs, rape, murder, human trafficking,
prostitutions etc.
 Pollutions (garbage & air) and there are still Filipinos who are illiterate because of poverty.
 As of now the Philippines is belong to developing country.
 In conclusion, our country has a lot more to improve because we are not fully developed yet.
We still have a long way to go before we became greater. It will not be an easy path and there
will be a lot of struggles.
 Solving these problems and issues will take a lot of time and effort from the Filipino citizens
itself. Therefore, even if we become better in the future, still we should not forget Rizal since he
is very important in our history, for his contributions in our country.